vGrief can bring on experiences that people often interpret as signs from loved ones who have passed. You catch your grandmother’s perfume drifting through an empty house. Your father’s presence seems to fill his garage while you’re sorting through his tools. You spin around expecting to see your spouse because you’re certain someone just walked into the room.
The pain of losing someone you love creates desperate longing. Bereavement Counselors say your brain refuses to accept that they’re gone and keeps searching everywhere, scanning familiar places, listening for their voice, expecting their touch. This constant searching activates the neural patterns you built over years of loving them. Your mind recreates their presence because the alternative feels unbearable.
